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Weather Forecast
Sunny with high of near 95. Tomorrow,
fair and continued hot. (Full report on
Page A-2.>
Temperatures Yesterday.
Noon 85 6 p.m 90 11 p.m 74
2 p.m 91 8 p.m 82 Midnight. 72
4 p.m 92 10 p.m 77 1 a m 72
100th Year. No. 258.
MorseTurnsCold on Eisenhower
After Saying He # d Support Him;
Plans toStayAloof in Gampaign
Oregon Senator Refers!
To Taft and Jenner in I
'Modifying Contract'
■y the Associated Press
Republican Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon, who announced
some time ago he would campaign
for Gen. Eisenhower, indicated
yesterday he has had a change of
heart and now plans to sit this
one out.
Senator Morse, self-described
liberal Republican, told reporters
Eisenhower and Stevenson Views on Issues
Are Compared. Page A-6
i
his present intention is to spend
the time between now and elec
tion day listening to the radio,
watching television and showing
his cattle at county fairs.
The Oregon Senator was one of
Gen. Eisenhower’s early backers
for the presidential nomination.
Cites Recent Developments.
Although avoiding direct state
ments on most questions. Senator
Morse made it clear his enthus
iasm for Gen. Eisenhower has
cooled at least temporarily—
because of these developments:
1. Gen. Eisenhower's confer
ence yesterday on political strat
egy with Senator Taft of Ohio,!
with whom Senator Morse has j
feuded in the Senate for years.
2. Gen. Eisenhower's public ap
pearances in Indiana with Sena
tor Jenner, who is seeking re
election, and his announcement
that he will back all Republican
candidates, including Senator Mc-
Carthy of Wisconsin
3. Announcement by Steve An-;
derson, Oregon young Republican
leader and Morse supporter, that,
Mr. Anderson was resigning from
the Eisenhower campaign staff
and would switch to the Demo
cratic candidate. Gov. Stevenson.
Sees Principle Compromised.
Less than a month ago, on Au
gust 19, Senator Morse made pub
lic a letter to Gen. Eisenhower
which said in part:
"I shall throw myself into your
campaign with all my vigor and
do whatever I can to help you i
and Nixon.” <
Asked about this promise, he ;
said yesterday: '
"That’s true, but without refer- ,
ence to this question and as a ‘
lawyer, an elementary principle of j
contract law is that the develop- (
ment of unforseen circumstances ,
sometimes makes it necessary to ,
modify a contract.” ,
As for the Eisenhower-Taft con- j
ference, which was followed by <
Senator Taft’s pledging unquali- (
fled support to the general, Sen
ator Morse said:
“I would add this non-partisan
comment applicable to all politi- (
cians: Whenever one compromises
with principle there is no prin
ciple left.”
Won’t Bolt Party.
Senator Morse also was asked
about the bolt by Mr. Anderson,
who said Gen. Eisenhower’s sup
port of Senators McCarthy and
Jenner “is too much for an honest
man to swallow.”
Senator Morse said he had tele
graphed Mr. Anderson:
“It is still my hope that those
of us who believe in a forward
looking Republican program based
upon specific constructive pro
posals for winning the peace and
promising a sound domestic econ
omy, will be vindicated by the Re
publican candidate.”
Asked if he was considering a
similar bolt from Gen. Eisenhower,
Senator Morse replied:
“As a matter of political ethics,
no man holding office has a right
to bolt his party. He does have
the political right to remain
silent.”
Senator Morse said he had been
invited to visit the Eisenhower
headquarters when they were at
Denver but added:
“I did not have the carfare to
visit Denver and I do not accept
travel expenses.”
Earthquake Registered
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 The
Columbia University seismograph
station detected a "small earth
quake” about 160 miles distant at
12:46 pun. (EST). The direction
of the earthquake was undeter
mined.
Yanks Stretch Lead,
Giants Gain Ground,
Bolling Gridders Win
The major league pennant
races continued hot yesterday,
with the leading New York Yan
kees gaining ground in the
American League, and the New
York Giants crowding Brooklyn
in the National.
The Yankees stretched their
lead over Cleveland to l x h. games
by trimming Chicago 6 to 5, while
the Indians were losing to the
Boston Red Sox 4 to 3 in 10 in
nings.
The Giants defeated Cincinnati
3 to 2 and cut the National League
lead of Brooklyn to three games,
as the Dodgers bowed to St. Louis
5 to 2.
In the sweltering heat here, the
I football team of Bolling Air Force
Base conquered the Quantico Ma
rines 14 to 6.
(Details in Starts Section.)
Stevenson, Pleased Over Tour,
Maps Aerial Forays Into East
Itinerary Includes Richmond Speech Saturday;
Governor to Go by Plane Mostly in Future
By J. A. O'Leary
Star Staff Correspondent
SPRINGFIELD. 111., Sept. 13.
Gov. Adlai Stevenson, pleased
with the results of his 7,500-mile
aerial trip through the West, has
decided to continue with most of
I his campaign by plane.
This was borne out by the an
nouncement today of- several |
widely-scattered forays into the
East during the next 10 days, in
cluding a visit to Richmond, Va.
After resting here a few days,
the Democratic nominee will fly
next Thursday to Bridgeport,
Conn., for a speech.
From there he will go by motor
cade through New Haven, New
Britain and Hartford, where he
will deliver a major address that
night in the Bushnell Auditorium.
Next Friday his party will
motor to Springfield, Mass., for
a mid-day talk, but Gov. Steven
| son will make no speech that
night out of respect for the Jewish!
j observance of Rosh Hoshanah.
Richmond Talk Slated.
I Next Saturday Gov. Stevenson
! will fly from Massachusetts to
Richmond and speak that night
in the Mosque.
From Richmond the Stevenson!
party will fly to New York for (
the Governor’s address to the;
Democrats in Florida
Refuse Full Support
For Gov. Stevenson
State House Nominees
Oppose Tidelands and
Senate Debate Stand
By the Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 13.—Demo
cratic nominees to the Florida
State House of Representatives re
fused in caucus today to give
wholehearted indorsement to Pres
idential Candidate Adlai E. Steven- ]
son.
They adopted a resolution call
ing on all Democrats to support
the party’s national, State and ]
county candidates, but tacked on '
an amendment declaring they were •
not indorsing Federal control of :
tidelands, limitation on United 1
State Senate debates or any candi
date who is for these measures.
Gov. Stevenson has spoKen out
| for Federal control of the tide
lands, and has indorsed the Demo- i
cratic platform plank calling for!
elimination of the unlimited de
bate rule by which Southern Sen
ators traditionally have blocked
passage of bills objectionable to
them.
Adopted on Close Vote.
The amendment qualifying the
caucus indorsement of party can
didates was adopted by a close
voice vote.
Representative Robert L. Floyd
of Miami, one of the principal
sponsors of the original party
loyalty resolution, said he felt, the
amendment amounted to the
caucus withholding support from
Gov. Stevenson.
He said it showed the members
were “not just lukewarm—but
almost ice cold.”
However, Representative Willard
Ayres of Ocala, sponsor of the
amendment, said it wasn’t a mat
ter of withholding support from
the presidential candidate.
Question of Qualification.
“I intend to vote for Stevenson,”
he said. “It was just a matter of
qualifying our indorsement of the
candidates and platform on those
two points.”
Mr. Ayres is a former law part
ner of United States Senator Hol
land.
Mr. Floyd argued in the caucus
that the unqualified resolution
was needed “to tell the people of
Florida we are not members of a
house divided.” He pleaded with
the nominees not to adopt the
amendment and “confuse the
minds of the people” or “create
doubt in the voters’ minds.”
Record 95-Degree Heal
Predicted for Today
A new heat record for Sep
’ tember 14 hovered over the
1 District today as the Weather
Bureau predicted a high mark
1 near 95 degrees.
, The present record is 94 de
■ grees, established in 1915.
! The warm days aren’t attribu
> table to hot air from some other
l section of the country, the
Weather Bureau said. They re
• suit from what it calls a “high
i pressure area” stagnant over this
; vicinity.
s The recent warm spell has been
. marked by a wide range of
temperatures, with cool nights,
i The thermometer ranged yester
> day, for example, from 63 to a
, high of 93 degrees at 3:35 p.m.
3 The day before, the range was 31
degrees.
> The mercury hit a high of 97 in
> Baltimore yesterday, setting a new
. record. Readings- in the 90s were
general over Maryland as the Sep-
I tember heat wave lingered.
W]c puntky
V X WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION v-*'
Ameridfen Federation of Labor on
Monday, September 22.
The program for the final week
I of September has not been worked
> out, but on October 4 Gov. Steven
i son will fly to Fort Dodge lowa,
1 for his second major bid for the
farm vote. This speech probably
will be delivered at the dedication
of a new airport.
Wilson Wyatt, Gov. Stevenson’s
campaign manager, said the next
trip will not be continuous from
September 18 to October 4. There
will be at least two intervals at
Springfield, and September 29 will
be a day of no campaigning be
cause of Yom Kippur.
This new itinerary reflected the
belief of Gov. Stevenson’s advisers
that he can make a better race
against Gen Eisenhower by picking
his spots and concentrating on the
larger audiences obtained by radio
and televised speeches in big cities
i than by whistle-stopping continu-;
jously through small towns by!
train.
Will Use Trains Occasionally. j
The Democratic nominee will
take to the rails occasionally, as he:
did for one day in California this!
; week. At the end of that day his
; aides were so impressed by the re
! (Continued on Page A-4, Col. 1.)
Court Order in Texas
Bans Pro-Eisenhower
Party Temporarily
Hearing Slated Tuesday
After Loyal Democrats
Denounce New Group
Byth. Associated Press
AUSTIN, Tex.. Sept. 13.
Angry Loyal Democrats went to
court today to try to keep Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower off the Texas
ballot as a Democratic nominee
for President.
They succeeded at least tempo
rarily. District Judge Jack Rob
erts granted the backers of Gov.
Adlai Stevenson a temporary re
straining order to keep the hastily
organized Texas Democratic
Party with Gen. Eisenhower as
its nominee off that ballot.
The self-styled Loyal Democrats
accused the new party of trying to
steal the “Democratic” name of
|the traditional party that has
been dominant in Texas since
1845.
Arguments Tuesday.
The order keeps Secretary of
State Jack Ross from certifying
the new party and its candidates
until Judge Roberts hears argu
ments at 9 a.m. Tuesday and
reaches a final decision.
Attorneys filed the suit In be
half of Gov. Stevenson and his
running mate, Sen. John Spark
man of Alabama, this morning
after telephone conferences yes
terday and last night with House
Speaker Sam Rayburn, National
Democratic Chairman Stephen
Mitchell, and other pro-Adminis
tration Democrats.
The temporary order was
granted by Judge Roberts at the
request of Austin Lawyers John
Cofer and Fagan Dickson, two
leaders of the Loyal Democrats
faction.
The plaintiffs said the effort on
the part of “disgruntled Demo
crats” to confuse voters and to
cause “an unfair decision in the
general election to be held in
November.”
Full Ticket Filed.
A group of about 10 Dallas citi
zens met Wednesday in a private
office and organized the “Texas
Democratic Party.”
They nominated Gen. Eisen
hower and Senator Richard M.
Nixon and filed their names and a
slate of electors duplicating that
of the Republican Party. They
also cross-filed a full ticket of
Democratic nominees for state
wide office, including Gov. Allan
Shivers and Senatorial Candidate
Price Daniel.
While arguments are being
heard in court Tuesday, another
Eisenhower movement will be ini
! tiated in Austin.
Tom Sealy. Midland attorney,
University of Texas regent and
close political friend of Gov.
Shivers, called a meeting for
Tuesday morning to organize a
. “Texas Democrats for Eisenhower
, movement.”
A meeting of pro-Stevenson
L Democrats also is scheduled in
. Austin next week, but Mr. Ray
burn, who announced it, has not
, disclosed the date.
t
. Brazil Signs With Japan
1 RIO DE JANEIRO. Sept. 13 UP)
■ —Japan and Brazil signed today a
L new agreement to increase their
trade more than double. The one
-1 year agreement retroactive to July
r 1, calls for exchange of goods
: amounting to $69.1 million, com
• pared to 1951 trade of about $32
million.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 14, 1952—196 PAGES
Eisenhower Off
Today on Tour
Os Midwest
Optimism Is High
On Eve of Start of
Whistle-Stop Trip
By Crosby S. Noyes
Star Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—The Re
publican presidential campaign
gets back on the track tomorrow
as Gen. Eisenhower hits the rails
: for an extended whistle-stop tour
of Ihe Midwest.
The candidate’s special train
will pull out of New York at 5:10
Gen. Eisenhower Is Fishing for His Political
Personality. Page A-27
p.m., headed for Fort Wayne, Ind.,
and the first of nearly 70 back
platform speeches scheduled dur
ing the 13-day trip. Before re
turning to New York, the general
will have carried his appeal to
voters in 11 States and covered
about 3,800 miles of critical elec
tion territory.
In the confusion of departure,
there is a feeling of excitement
and optimism in the Eisenhower
camp. The last week has been a
trying one. devoted to the neces
sary job of rounding up the party
strays and getting the organiza
tion back into something like co
hesive shape.
Hold No Illusions.
! That job, it is fervently hoped,
was accomplished in the meeting
! between Senator Taft and Gen.
i Eisenhower yesterday. But it was
accomplished at the cost of
considerable head-shaking and
tongue-clucking from the more
liberal Republicans who are the
general’s original and most sin
cere admirers.
Everyone, from the general on
down, is under no illusion that the
; events of the last week have pre
sented a particularly inspiring
spectacle to the average voter.
Now that the preliminary chores
are out of the way, the “great cru
sade” can get rolling again.
There was a more than a hint of
this in the general’s talk to some
2000 Eisenhower-Nixon supporters
at the Park Lane Hotel here today.
The group was drawn from all sec
tions of the country, and it rep
resented the general’s original vol
unteer boosters rather than the
professionals who have moved in
since the convention. The seven
member Washington contingent,
for example, was headed by Rob
ert E. McLaughlin and included
many who sparkplugged the drive
in the Capital for Gen. Eisenhow
er’s nomination.
Change Its Tone.
The General’s little talk to them
marked an abrupt shift from the
tone of recent statements and
provides a tip for what may be
expected in the coming campaign
tour.
“I believe, of course in organi
zation,” he said, “but I believe far
more in spirit. I believe far more
in. the heart than in the mind.
Men react to emotion and senti
ment far more than to logic and
statistics.”
This, perhaps, is surprising
talk coming from a military man.
It is, however, the words of a
man who has just finished making
a very strenuous bow to the neces
sity of organization and who
realizes that spirit and sentiment
also are important ingredients of
victory in an election.
There are other reasons why
the coming campaign trip is ex
pected to provide a needed shot
in the arm to the Eisenhower
crusade. At all times, the general
has been effective as a speaker
in direct proportion to his feeling
of closeness to his audience. The
crowds at station platforms
such as those who turned out to
greet him on his way from Den
ver to Chicago before the con
vention, are his special meat.
Gen. Eisenhower, by his own
admission, is the kind of speaker
who needs the sense of close
communication with his audience
to be effective. And he is more
likely to get it in the course of
eight or ten brief whistle-stop
appearances a day than he is in
the wide-spaced, airborne cam
paign that he has conducted so
far.
U. S. Adviser in India
NEW DELHI, India, Sept. 13 UP)
—Dr. Wolf I. Ladejinsky. United
States Embassy agriculture at
tache in postwar Japan, arrived
today to advise the Indian gov
ernment on land reform.
Ecuador Head-Shrinkers' Drug
Called Hopeful in Cancer Cases
By tha Associated Press ]
GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador, Sept. I
13. Dr. Wilburn H. Ferguson, :
United States cancer research spe- ,
cialist, said today he believes herbs
used by Indians to shrink human 1
heads may be the source of a new
drug in the treatment of cancer. i
Dr. Ferguson and his wife came
here a year ago at the invitation'
of President Galo Plaza. Since 1
then, they, with Ecuadorean Drs.'
Antonio Trujillo, Dionisio Espino- 1
za Vega and Jorge Luis Auz, have
carried on a series of experiments.:
During the year. Dr. Ferguson 1
said, poisonous plants from Ecua
dor’s forests were gathered—the '
same plants Indians used in
shrinking heads to the size of a
baseball. After the poisonous sap
Suspect Captured 20 Minutes
After Druggist Is Kidnaped
Robber Threatens to Throw Pharmacist
In Lake; Policeman Spots Getaway Car
A daring bandit, who held ur
and kidnaped pharmacist Alvir
Liptz in the latter’s drugstore
Stewart’s Pharmacy. 5108 Mac-
Arthur boulevard N.W., was cap
tured within 20 minutes by police
last night.
The holdup man-kidnaper was
identified as John (Champ) Hutt,
Pictures on Page A-2.
23. a lather, who lives at
5187 MacArthur boulevard, only a
stone’s throw from the store of
his victim.
Police charged him only with
robbery. They said S6B was taken.
James Zimmerman, 16, of 5515
Hawthorne place N.W., a clerk at
the store, told police he was an
eye-witness to the holdup-kid
naping. Hutt is well-known in
the neighborhood.
He said Hutt entered the store
and walked toward Mr. Liptz, who
was at a rear counter. He said he
saw Hutt talking to the phar
macist, but he could not hear
what was said.
Saw the Till Emptied.
“I saw both of them go to the
cash register in the back,” the
young clerk said. “Then they both
went to the cash register at the
front of the shop and I saw the
till emptied.
“That was when I got suspi
cious. I watched Mr. Liptz go
out with “Champ.” He didn’t have
any gun in his hand but his hand
was in his pocket like he did have
one. As soon as they left I called
police,” he said.
Later, Hutt told 7th Precinct
Pvt. James H. Mullen he held up
the pharmacist because he wanted
money to finance a trip to Miami,
where he intended to take a job
as a bellhop.
According to Pvt. Mullen, Hutt
drove the druggist to a tavern
at the Virginia side of Chain
Bridge and made him drink a few
beers there.
Afterwards, the two rode around
Arlington County for a short while
before the hostage persuaded Hutt
to take him back toward his store.
Before agreeing to do so, Mr.
Liptz said Hutt, whose hobby is
throwing knives, had made some
"vague threat to toss my body in
a lake.”
It was when the two returned to
the vicinity of the drugstore that
Hutt’s late model auto was spotted
and he was arrested.
Target for Gunmen.
’ Mr. Liptz, 44, apparently is bad
luck for gunmen. He was held
up in 1950 and the robber was cap
tured shortly afterward. While in
prison, the man sent Mr. Liptz a
Christmas and Easter card, Mrs.
Liptz said.
When captured. Hutt had only
two silver spoons which he used
to cower Mr. Liptz. ’Earlier, police
reports that Hutt had a .38 caliber
pistol proved unfounded.
Swaggering with a “tough guy”
attitude, the bandit admonished
a photographer to take “a good
shot of me.” He also bantered to
a reporter, “Do you want a lamp
from eight plants had been neu
tralized and refined it was in
jected intravenously.
Dr. Ferguson said the patients
who submitted to the treatment
were in advanced stages of cancer
and their cure was “hopeless.”
The doctors reported these re
sults:
The lives of patients near death
were prolonged, pain disappeared,
hemorrhages stopped and there
was a noticeable reduction in can
cerous tissue.
Dr. Ferguson said it would take
four to five years before the treat
ment could be proved definitely.
Yesterday, Dr. Ferguson and his
wife, who works with him, were
invited by Memorial Hospital of
New York to return and continue
their experiments there.
> so you can see to take those
1 notes?”
- On the front seat of Hutt’s
flashy 1952 black and cream
Buick Riviera sedan, police said
they found several bottles of
beer.
Chiefly responsible for the
capture was Pvt. M. J. Wal
ker, of the Seventh precinct, who
was standing in front of the drug
store when Hutt’s own car went
past.
The policeman spotted the get
away car and jumped into a scout
car. He forced Hutt’s auto to the
curb at Dana place and Fulton
street N.W., less than two blocks
from the pharmacy.
Visited Laundry Shop.
Before the holdup. Mrs. Frank
Lee, wife of a laundry shop pro
prietor next to the drugstore, said
she had a visit from Hutt. She
told police Hutt confided that he
was going to rob Mr. Liptz. It was
in the laundry shop, police said,
that Hutt got the spoons.
“Champ came into the laundry
and had some bacon, eggs, and
coffee with me.” she declared. “He
acted kind of strange and he asked
Ime for $3. I gave him the money.
Then he told me that he was
[going to rob Mr. Liptz.
j “Just before he went next door
to the pharmacy he told me that;
if he didn’t get anything he was
going to come back and blow my
brains out. I got scared and locked
up and the next thing I knew I
saw the cops going into the drug
Mrs. Lee said.
Lewisburg Fugitives
Reported in Maryland
As Manhunt Spreads
By tha Associated Press
THURMONT, Md., Sept. 13—
A 100-man posse headed by State
Police Supt. Elmer Munshower
tonight was combing the moun
tain area along the Maryland-
Pennsylvania line on the strength
of reports three dangerous fugi
tives from the Federal Peniten
tiary at Lewisburg, Pa., had been
sighted in the vicinity.
This made the search for the
jailbreakers, heavily armed and
dangerous, a two-pronged affair.
FBI agents, Pennsylvania State
police and local officers continued
to cover the Allentown (Pa.) area,
where they were reported seen
near Allentown at 10 a.m. yes
terday.
Allentown and Thurmont, near
Hagerstown, Md., are about 150
miles apart. Lewisburg, where the
fugitive bank robbers escaped last
Wednesday, is approximately in
the middle.
Called “Vicious.”
The men are Joseph Nolen, 26,
and Ballard Nolen, 22. his brother,
both of Harlan County, Ky„ and
Elmer Schuer, 21, of Chicago.
They are known to be carrying
shotguns and an ample supply of
ammunition. FBI circulars des
cribed them as “vicious” and “ex
tremely dangerous.”
The Maryland search began in
earnest after two men reportedly
answering the description of the
two Nolens were sighted at Pen
Mar, about 3 miles from here.
State Police Lt. W. K. May said
Mrs. Emma Springer, who runs a
grocery at Pen Mar. reported two
strange men had bought groceries
there during the morning.
Men Ran to Woods.
Trooper Harlan Brown went to
Pen Mar to investigate. Just out
side the town. Lt. May added.
Trooper Brown sighted two men
who took to the woods when they
spotted the trooper’s car. He gave
case but lost them.
He checked with Mrs. Springer,
and she identified one of the two 1
from pictures of the fugitives, and ;
felt “fairly certain” of the other
(See FUGITIVES, Page A-2.)
Washlncton nvr’Vr rPYTC 16 CZNTB
and Suburb! -LItJN UltiN 10. Elsewhere
s
Record lOUOtypupils
Expected as Opening
Os District Schools
Crowding in Prospect
Tomorrow Despite
Three New Buildings
By James G. Deane
Washington’s public schools re-i
open at 9 a.m. tomorrow for an ex
pected record 101,700 youngsters.!
• Much crowding and some part-!
time classes are in prospect, des
pite the opening of three new
schools. Teachers also will be in:
> School Board Aides to Challenge Charge
of Wasted Space. Page A-14
short supply for Negro pupils, who
will outnumber white students by
an expected margin of more than
8,000.
Last year the enrollment was
J 96,872—the biggest up to now.
I The three new schools, all for
; Negroes, are Spingarn High School,
; Twenty-fourth street and Benning
’ road N.E.; Terrell Junior High,
First and Pierce streets N.W., and
, Douglass Junior High, Stanton!
and Douglas roads S.E.
Douglas is opening only partially
! complete. Workmen haven’t fin
ished its gym, auditorium and
cafeteria yet, as well as some
1 classroom details.
Two Schools Transferred.
Two other schools, formerly
white, are reopening for Negroes.
These are Eliot Junior High
School, Eighteenth and B streets
N.E., and Fairbrother Elementary,
Tenth and E streets S.W. Eliot’s
former white pupils will form a
new junior high division in nearby
Eastern High School.
Part-time classes are slated in
two Negro schools—four at Payne,
two at Maury. They involve some
thing more than 200 pupils. Part
time schedules are possible at
several other schools, both white
and Negro, but officials hope to
stave them off by commandeering
emergency class space, such as
teachers’ and recreation rooms.
Simon Elementary probably
will be the worst-jammed white
school. With a normal capacity
of 936 pupils, it expects 1,500.
Parents Protest.
Garfield and Turner Element
aries may be Negro troublespots.
Garfield and Turner fifth and
sixth graders are overflowing into
the old Birney School. But new
housing is opening nearby. An
expected influx of new residents:
might bring some part-time
classes in that area later.
Some Garfield-Turner parents
have objected to using old Birney.
Mrs. Edna S. Gordon, Parent-
Teacher Association president, said .
yesterday there won’t be any!
school strike, but the parents have
scheduled a meeting for Thursday
night.
School authorities are acting to
meet part of the Negro teacher
shortage. Forty-five new Negro;
teachers now are being hired with
money made available by a slash
in the white teacher force. Most<
of the new teachers won’t be on
the job for several days, however.
Seventy-two more Negro teachers
are needed, but there’s no money :
to hire them.
Transfer of Eliot will cause some 1
first-day pupil shuffling. New
Negro junior high students must i
report to their old elementary i
schools to learn what junior high :
they will attend. This Is because 1
the Eliot transfer wasn’t decided
on until summer.
Four Burned to Death
In Waynesboro Home
By the Associated Press
WAYNESBORO. Va., Sept. 13 -
Flames of undetermined origin
swept through a two-story frame
dwelling here late tonight, burn
ing to death four persons trapped
on the second floor.
The dead, all colored, were
identified as Mrs. Eva Berry, 54.
and her two grandchildren. Ron
dell and William Goines. all of
Waynesboro, and William Daw
son of Staunton, who was visiting
in the home. I
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Miners Asking
$1.60 a Day and
10 Cents a Ton
Union and Operators
Far Apart; Saturday
Is Strike Deadline
By James Y. Newton
John L. Lewis is demanding of
soft coal operators large increases
in wages and welfare fund pay
ments and a shorter work day,
it was learned last night.
Specifically, Mr. Lewis has
made it known that he wants for
his 400,000 miners a wage in
crease of about $1.60 a day; a
boost of 10 cents per ton of coal
as operator payments to the union
welfare fund: a reduction from
eight to seven hours in the “por
tal-to-portal” work day.
There are other demands, in
cluding the publicized Lewis plan
to share the work in the coal
fields among all of the miners.
This he would do by having the
operators who desired to operate
mote than three days a week pay
higher wage rates for additional
days.
Contract Expires Saturday.
Mr. Lewis and the operators, at
the moment, were said to be far
j apart in the matter of working
" out a new coal contract. There
were indications, however, that
J Mr. Lewis earlier had been close
to an agreement with the Bitu
minous Coal Operators Associa
tion. This group includes com
mercial operators of the North
and Midwest and the large mine
holdings of the big steel com
panies.
The United Mine Workers con
tract with Northern and Midwest
ern operators expires next Satur
day. The agreement with the
other large group of operators, the
Southern Coal Producers Associa
tion expires September 30.
. There was pessimism among in
dustry leaders that a strike could
be headed off before the Saturday
J Mr. Lewis has called his 250-
J ! man Policy Committee here to
morrow to review contract nego
tiations.
e Welfare Revenue Down.
I The base pay of the average
, miner now is $16.35 for an eight
hour day. That includes about
an hour required in traveling to
Y and from the working “face,” in
• side the mine, and a half-hour
paid lunch period. The actual
5 work time now is about 6V2 hours
a day. The wage demand would
1 raise the pay to $17.95.
” Operators now pay into the
g ; union’s Welfare and Retirement
‘’jFund 30 cents on each ton of coal
1 1 produced.
1 The demand for soft coal has
slackened greatly this year and
y production now is running about
' 13 per cent under last year’s total.
I Unless Mr. Lewis obtains a boost
' in operator payments, he faces
!these alternatives:
1. A reduction in benefits sup
/ ported by the fund, which would
. meet with strong resistance among
1 the miners.
3 2. Cutting into the fund's sur
> plus of about SIOO million. This
5 seemingly large sum is not con
sidered too safe, a working mar
' gin for a program as large as that
undertaken by the miners’ union.
Steel Anxious to Settle.
| The mine operators, particularly
‘ those outside the steel industry,
j believe the Lewis demands would
' mean bankruptcy for many of
J them.
, Many already are hard put to
! make ends meet. Some mines are
operating only a day or two a
, week with the average very little
, more than three days.
- Some of the big steel companies
represented by the Bituminous
Coal Operators Association report
edly were anxious to settle with
' Mr. Lewis without a strike. The
• association is headed by Harry M.
1 Moses, veteran operator negotia
> tor.
The steel interests are parti
cularly anxious to settle the coal
Controversy without interference
! with steel production. The steel
companies have from 30 to 60 days
< supply of coal on hand.
Showdown Fight Seen.
. Mr. Lewis served notice of term
' ination of contract with the Moses
, group 10 days before he sent simi
’ l ar word to the Southern opera
tors, headed by Joseph E. Moody.
At that time, in late July, the steel
! producers had just settled a two-
Ihonth strike with the CIO. Mr.
' Lewis apparently believed the time
1 was right to gain quick benefits
1 for miners employed by the steel
< companies.
1 But the strategy of attempting
• to divide the coal operators ap
> parently has failed. Some coal
’ interests now believe the industry
is heading into a long and bitter
' showdown fight with Mr. Lewis.
r Because there is an estimated
;80 days’ supply of coal above
ground, largest stockpile in 10
1 years, there is little pressure on
i the operators to settle.
Leesburg Is Worrying
Over District Expansion
LEESBURG WORRlES—Leesburg, Va.,
is a town where everybody knows
everybody else. But it is worried that
it may become a suburb of Washing
ton. See picture story on Page A-35.
THE CRACKING SOLID SOUTH—
Few Republicans really think the solid
South con be weaned away from tha
Democratic Party. But in Georgia there
is a chance the State may go for
Ike. See story by William Hines, Star
Staff Correspondent, on Page A-6.
Complete Index, Page A-2
Radio-TV Programs, Pages E-4-J